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David Sloan
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Chief Scientific Officer of the Foundational Questions Institute. Reader in Physics at Lancaster University. Friend to dogs. (He/Him)

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Also preparing for lectures, but my slides feel somewhat more spartan
Slide with title "Do We Live in a Simulation" and one word in the middle of the screen "No".
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Meanwhile in cosmology (0 Job Found also)
Meme in which disbelief-apparent teenager is captioned "You guys advertise positions?"
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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French police finally realease an image from the Louvre heist getaway.
An image of the children's TV classic "Victor and Hugo" featuring Victor, Hugo and their bird "Interpol".
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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28th hour of the meeting. I imagine at this point someone has a question, or "..really more of a comment than a question"
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Now on its tenth hour.
Text showing that it is now 9 hours 1 minute and 20 seconds into a Teams meeting, with a join button there screaming through my intrusive thoughts to examine the horrors therein.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I've got to give them credit for honesty in the conference acronym.
Email subject line: "[External] You are invited to submit papers and participate in ISCAM 2025
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Ok, now LinkedIn is joining in gaslighting me that I have a medical background. Is this because I started watching Scrubs again recently?
LinkedIn Message reading " Outlier: We loved your Medical background David. But we were wondering - are you interested in joining a new research platform where you can earn an income by finding issues in the world's best AI models? Outlier is owned by Scale AI, who have received a major investment from Amazon and Meta."
July 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Good job they reminded me as I don't even remember doing that.
Credulous email subjectline reading: "Quick Reminder: David Sloan recognized as Most Trailblazing CSOs Powering Healthcare Transformation in Europe".
July 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Predatory journals are just an endless crapflood...
A seemingly endless list of journal submission invites, all received in the last 7 hours.
June 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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First *they* came for the pronouns. Then *they* came for the adverbs...
Post by Reform UK's Steve Miller, reads "Do YOU support @reformparty_uk to end Woke nonsense!? I do. Start by banning pronouns in the public sector." Underneath is pictured a head which appears to be an attempt by a semi-conscious bowl of concrete to pretend to be a human being.
May 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I don't think you could sum up the Guardian better. Columnists that couldn't find their left hand given two tries.
Two article headlines, the first "It's the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair - how was this man ever considered a progressive?" By Zoe Williams. The second "Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record" by Zoe Williams. The second goes on to say in subtitle "From Northern Ireland to the NHS, Blair left a real progressive blueprint. But the left has allowed it to be obliterated by Iraq".
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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They've got a lot to answer for.
Image of Feathers McGraw with a rubber glove on his head in the form of a police notice. Notice reads "WANTED. Have you seen this chicken? £1000 reward".
April 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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LinkedIn "messages" (adverts) have really streamlined their processes.
Text reading "Sound like something you'd be interested in? Click the link below to start your trial today. And with ongoing pricing from just £8 per moth, we're levelling the playing firled for small businesses." Beyond the text there is simply a button labelled "Not Interested".
March 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The administrator is cosplaying Gordon Freeman.

Is anyone working on a gluon gun? Asking for a friend...
Elon Musk on the stairs to air force one, wearing a T-shirt with the half-life logo.
March 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Yes Outlook, that's exactly the formatting you should be automatically applying. AI isn't going to kill me, but it might make me lose my will to live.
Text reading "I'm away until the 17th" with the 7 and t raised to superscripts.
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I'm hugely in favour of interdisciplinary work, but I think even for me the journal would be a stretch...
Email reading "Dear David Sloan, If you are looking to publish your article entitled "How closed is cosmology?" or any other research in a Scopus Q4 multidisciplinary journal, we invite you to submit your manuscript to: Journal Name: Cuestiones de Fisioterapia Indexing: Scopus (Q4) ISSN: 1135-8599 Scope: Multidisciplinary Enjoy fast publication with rigorous peer review and global visibility."
February 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Truly a shocker in today's university environment
Picture of email inbox, email received titled "Book found in library" from Physics Department Enquiries
February 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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It cannot count.
Image where Google's AI claims to "count" the number of zeros, just listing the numbers 1-18 with ... 0 after them.
December 26, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Google's AI is having its "strawberry" moment. It's coming for my job, but it can't count to 11...
Image from Google's AI wherein it claims the number 591117290039062500000000000 has 18 trailing zeros.
December 26, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Did I submit to the journal of Catch-22 studies?
Text from two emails: 1: We have put your manuscript on hold because you have not provided us with a highlighted version of your revised manuscript that clearly shows the changes you have made in response to reviewer comments. Please can you make sure the PDF manuscript in the manuscript files section of the submission form as a ‘Complete Document for Review’ has the changes highlighted, before resubmitting. Please do not remove any of your other files. If your manuscript is to be processed with double anonymous peer review, please ensure your highlighted pdf does not include any author information. 2: Thank you for your revised submission. We notice that the PDF you have provided includes coloured and/or strike through text. Although this is suitable for review purposes, we also need a clean version so that we can publish the Accepted Manuscripts version. Please email us a clean version of your manuscript PDF as you would like it to appear online.
December 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Does anyone else think differenetly in different whiteboard pen colours? Like "No, I have to do this calculation in blue, it's tricky" "Ah, that's a red idea!"
A whiteboard showing a lot of equations and some diagrams
December 9, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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The most satisfying thing I ever see at work
December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM